Posted by One Angry Monkey | Filed under The Week at FTP
Reader Mail is back and better than ever before! Actually, we’re the same as we’ve always been, I just felt like getting myself pumped up for today’s action. Things you will not find in this mailbag: a mention of Vinnie Vinh and his omnipresent chair; me noticing that Mike Matusow has lost a ton of weight thanks to his “starve yourself into $100K” program; or any discussion of the WSOP “Ladies Event,” a poker tournament for women only. What you will find is the cream of the crop when it comes to semi-poker related questions answered by a guy who knows relatively little about poker. Email us at pokerfromtherail@fulltiltpoker.com with any comments, questions, or diatribes about Boston sports fans and their unending quest to be the most insanely pompous a-holes on the face of the planet. Which is the long way of saying: go Lakers! On to the show:
Is Phil Ivey just really rich or really crazy?
Maybe a little from column A, maybe a little from column B. That’s the best part about Ivey being Ivey – his utter disregard (and disrespect, possibly) of money. I like to imagine that Phil is so rich that he uses his money for more mundane everyday occurrences than anything else. Spill some milk on the kitchen counter? Ivey whips out a pack of hundred dollar bills and wipes it up. Out of Post-It notes? Phil Ivey to the rescue. No TP? Well, let’s not go there…
The point is that Ivey obviously has enough money to play in all these WSOP events with his only goal being to win a bracelet, not earn more cash. That’s why he can stroll into one of the rebuy events with about 100 “just in case” rebuys waiting in his back pocket or on a chip-filled tray. You absolutely have to be both rich and crazy to do that sort of thing. I’d love to get to the point someday where money just has no meaning to me. Maybe then I’ll start wiping my ass with hundred dollar bills …
What’s the deal with the WPT? Are they done, or just dying a slow death?
I don’t think that they’re done or dying a slow death, but poker on TV just ain’t what it used to be. I’m not saying that the product is bad (hell, it’s probably better produced than it’s ever been), but the market just isn’t the same. The poker boom has come and gone, and now we’re left with a veritable wasteland of has-been poker TV shows. The market has been super saturated, which means that at this point only the best of the best will survive.
All of which should be seen as good news for the WPT. Yes, their TV contract with GSN has expired and will not be renewed. But they’re still one of the best and most well known poker shows on the market. Somebody will want that name brand recognition on their station, be it SpikeTV or one of those other “especially for men” channels. The show must go on, and I’m certain that the WPT will be back for a seventh season.
Been playing in any of the MSOP events? Those things are the biggest donk-fests that I’ve ever seen.
Like many of the other low-stakes ballers out there on Full Tilt Poker, I’ve been doing my best to donk it up in as many MSOP events as I can. I tend to agree that these have been some of the most donk-tastic poker playing experiences I’ve ever been a part of. It seems that most of the time any Ace is good enough to push with, any King is good enough to call with, and any suited connector or small pocket pair should be played as if they’re Pocket Rockets. In one event I held A-Q and pushed all-in after an Ace came on the flop. I was called by two players, one holding A-6 and one holding A-3. The turn brought a 3 and the river was a 6. But hey, that’s poker baby!
I am happy to report that I finally cashed and very nearly made a final table in Event #17, a $15 + $1.50 NLHE triple shootout. After taking down my first table by waiting while one guy went on a heater and eliminated most of the competition until I utterly destroyed him heads up, I made it all the way to heads-up play again at the second table. And as much as my first heads-up match was a complete beat down, my second heads-up match could be aptly described as a lesson in how not to play heads up. I was weak, I was scared, I got my ass handed to me by a guy who probably has most of his experience in play money SNGs. It was embarrassing and demeaning beyond my worst nightmares. Now my confidence is completely shot and I’m playing poker like a deer caught in headlights. But the donk-fest must go on, and I shall keep playing these MSOP events until I either make a final table or die trying. Until next week…
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